“I was kind of scared to see the un-retouched images of me. I was like, maybe I’m delusional and I don’t look how I think I look. And it was like — they smoothed a line here, and shaved a line on my neck. It was the most minimal retouching. I felt completely respected by Vogue. I felt like thank you for removing the one line from my face because I’m 27 years old and shouldn’t have that there, I appreciate this and instead of going like, ‘Hey we kind of f**ked up, these pictures aren’t that retouched, Lena, enjoy the Vogue spread that you’ve been excited about since you were 8 years old’.’ They were like, ‘She’s not retouched, but she could’ve been.’ It was this weird almost political maneuvering that I just had a lot of trouble respecting.”

Ouch. But I can’t help but agree with her reaction. What a waste of $10,000. [Cosmopolitan]

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